Cosa Nostra News

All five New York Mafia bosses are out of prison—or at least, were out of prison—until, in an absolutely shocking twist—we're being facetious—a judge in Brooklyn Federal Court earlier this week sentenced Colombo boss Theodore (Skinny Teddy) Persico to nine months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release (for the third time, according to the Feds) by meeting with other Colombo wiseguys last December. Skinny Teddy Persico. Skinny Teddy, 62, had been surveilled by the FBI attending the crime family's Christmas party at Ponte Vecchio in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge section. In prior months, Persico had also visited a Colombo wiseguy outside a Manhattan hospital and greeted a Gambino gangster at a Staten Island body shop, though the Feds apparently gave him a pass for those “illegal” encounters. As for the Christmas party meeting, Persico's attorney argued that his client had only been in the restaurant briefly and didn't even try to hide it (apparently, if yo...

James (Jimmy) LaForte—a strong arm for the Gambino crime family—plead guilty to racketeering conspiracy, Hobbs Act extortion/extortion conspiracy, witness retaliation, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He made the plea in Brooklyn Federal court last Wednesday before US Magistrate Judge Joseph A. Marutollo. James LaForte. The US Attorney for the Eastern District accused LaForte, who holds the rank of soldier, and nine other Gambino wiseguys and associates of using violent extortion, fraud, theft and embezzlement to infiltrate New York's carting and demolition industries. “These ten Gambino members and associates orchestrated a campaign of violent assaults and property destruction to collect debts and intimidate those employed by competing companies,” said FBI Assistant Director James C. Barnacle, Jr . “Their collective actions terrorized New York residents and businesses to generate an illegal revenue stream.” LaForte, 49, who is currently serving time on another case i...

Joseph Testa—one of the "Gemini Twins," who was released from prison on April 30, 2024, and retired to Nevada—died on January 26. He was 71. The Gemini Twins Anthony Senter, left, and Joey Testa. Testa had been dealing with medical problems for years. His longtime partner (the other Gemini Twin), Anthony Senter, 70, was released on June 21, 2024. (See video below for a peek at the Gemini Twins and other DeMeo crew members enjoying a barbecue at their boss's Long Island home.) Both Testa and Senter had served about 35 years in prison, a fraction of the well-earned, life-plus-20-year sentences they were slammed with in 1989 after they were convicted of participating in nearly a dozen murders. The once-fearsome Gemini Twins—they got the nickname from the Gemini Lounge, a bar once located on Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie, Brooklyn—were first associated with the Gambino family, where they were part of the Roy DeMeo crew , made famous by the book Murder Machine: A True Story ...

A person claiming to be a victim of Jeffrey Epstein accused Johnny Martorano—a Patriarca family- and Winter Hill Gang-affiliated hitman who admitted to killing 20 people and who testified at the trial of James (Whitey) Bulger, among others—of rape. Johnny (Sickle Cell) Martorano. This is according to a report that highlighted the allegation, which was emailed to two federal judges and was discussed last August by Federal prosecutors in New York, the Justice Department’s Friday release of around 3.5 million Jeffrey Epstein files has revealed “John Martorano was the man who raped me and took a picture of me naked and said ‘let's take a picture for Clarence Thomas,’” the individual wrote. Yes, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is caught up in this. The same victim accused Thomas of sexually assaulting her,  when she was a child: "This is also in my CIA file because a few people have asked me if I remembered, but I couldn't remember much of my childhood because I was d...